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High Winds, Rain Cancel Combined in FIN

MONDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2006

KUUSAMO, Finland - High winds, which forced cancellation of a ski jumping event the night before, and rain forced officials Sunday to cancel a nordic combined sprint World Cup.

"I don't know if they were the same winds because they were from a different direction," Head Coach Lasse Ottesen said, "but we could see early on this wasn't happening. We never got to take the trial round [of jumping] and then, after a delay, everything was canceled."

The next combined competitions are scheduled in Lillehammer, Norway - where Ottesen won a silver medal in Olympic jumping in 1994 for Norway - after being moved from Trondheim because of poor snow conditions. Ottesen said officials were considering moving the sprint to Lillehammer but a final decision would not be made for a day or two.

This article is courtesy of the US Ski Team.

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